From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 10 Oct 2001 16:22:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 10 Oct 2001 16:21:46 -0400 Received: from esteel10.client.dti.net ([209.73.14.10]:3254 "EHLO shookay.e-steel.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 10 Oct 2001 16:21:40 -0400 To: storri@ameritech.net (Stephen Torri), Linux Kernel Subject: Re: Memory free report error (kernel-2.4.10-ac10) In-Reply-To: From: Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer Date: 10 Oct 2001 16:22:09 -0400 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Which is the way unix works... Free memory is useless: better use it as cache or else... storri@ameritech.net (Stephen Torri) writes: > I have installed and used kernel-2.4.10-ac10 on a SMP system (Dual P3) > using 768 MB Ram. Yet on startup of the system (RedHat 7.0), the system > resources are almost all used. Here are the files started: > > USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND > root 1 1.1 0.0 1304 528 ? S 15:56 0:06 init [3] > root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW 15:56 0:00 [keventd] > root 3 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SWN 15:56 0:00 [ksoftirqd_CPU0] > root 4 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SWN 15:56 0:00 [ksoftirqd_CPU1] > root 5 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW 15:56 0:00 [kswapd] > root 6 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW 15:56 0:00 [kreclaimd] > root 7 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW 15:56 0:00 [bdflush] > root 8 0.2 0.0 0 0 ? SW 15:56 0:01 [kupdated] > root 9 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW 15:56 0:00 [khubd] > root 341 0.0 0.0 1364 596 ? S 16:03 0:00 syslogd -m 0 > root 351 0.1 0.1 2004 1176 ? S 16:03 0:00 klogd > nobody 405 0.0 0.0 7596 708 ? S 16:03 0:00 identd -e -o > nobody 407 0.0 0.0 7596 708 ? S 16:03 0:00 identd -e -o > nobody 408 0.0 0.0 7596 708 ? S 16:03 0:00 identd -e -o > nobody 409 0.0 0.0 7596 708 ? S 16:03 0:00 identd -e -o > nobody 410 0.0 0.0 7596 708 ? S 16:03 0:00 identd -e -o > daemon 424 0.0 0.0 1336 576 ? S 16:03 0:00 /usr/sbin/atd > root 455 0.0 0.1 2192 992 ? S 16:03 0:00 xinetd -stayalive > root 473 0.0 0.2 1904 1896 ? SL 16:03 0:00 ntpd > root 524 0.0 0.2 3224 1552 ? S 16:03 0:00 sendmail: accepti > root 540 0.0 0.0 1328 492 ? S 16:03 0:00 gpm -t ps/2 > root 555 0.0 0.0 1532 708 ? S 16:03 0:00 crond > xfs 594 0.1 0.4 4404 3176 ? S 16:03 0:00 xfs -droppriv -da > root 630 0.0 0.0 1276 432 tty2 S 16:04 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tt > root 631 0.0 0.0 1276 432 tty3 S 16:04 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tt > root 632 0.0 0.0 1276 432 tty4 S 16:04 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tt > root 633 0.0 0.0 1276 432 tty5 S 16:04 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tt > root 634 0.0 0.0 1276 432 tty6 S 16:04 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tt > root 677 0.1 0.1 2264 1204 tty1 S 16:04 0:00 login -- torri > torri 678 0.0 0.1 2436 1416 tty1 S 16:04 0:00 -bash > torri 700 0.0 0.1 2048 1080 ? S 16:04 0:00 /usr/bin/fetchmai > torri 733 0.1 0.3 6588 2640 tty1 T 16:05 0:00 pine > torri 734 0.0 0.0 2528 732 tty1 R 16:06 0:00 ps aux > > Here is the report of the memory (free -m): > total used free shared buffers cached > Mem: 751 662 89 0 564 18 > -/+ buffers/cache: 78 672 > Swap: 133 0 133 > > Here is the version I am using (/proc/version): > > Linux version 2.4.10-ac10 (root@base.torri.linux) (gcc version 3.0.2 > 20010908 (prerelease)) #2 SMP Wed Oct 10 14:16:51 EDT 2001 > > I have never run across this problem. I don't know where to begin or what > information is required to help debug this. Advise would be helpful. > > Stephen Torri > storri@ameritech.net > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > -- Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer E-Mail : mchouque@e-steel.com Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way. -- Alan J. Perlis